Adult sites and article marketing

Article marketing will work with almost anything. You should gear your article topics towards adult subjects. For example, you can talk about male enhancement, etc. You will definitely get interested readers and you can easily market your product by recommending it to readers.
Good luck!

Danny, you're going to have one hell of a hard time with any traditional
advertising model in the adult niche. You can't use Adwords, most article
directories won't allow articles on the subject, Squidoo is out as is YouTube,
and just about any other web 2.0 site I know of.

I suggest you get a hold of an expert in the adult niche and find out how
they do it. I got into it briefly about the time I first got on AOL but I knew
so little about marketing back then that I got very little business.

Danny, there is one thing that you CAN do and I just thought of it.

If you have a really killer site, submit it to thehun.net.

Give them a free page with some thumbs and link that page to your offer.

You'll get a nice surge of traffic in one day. When I did it, I got 14,000
visitors my first day. Unfortunately, I didn't have a great offer at the time
and knew nothing about monetization. Hell, I didn't even have a PayPal
account. I was taking checks at a PO Box.

Anyway, when you have something good to submit, do it.

It WILL help a lot.

Make a page and submit it to them for inclusion. It's not easy to get in,
but if you do, it's a great kick start.

Hey all,
Just thought I would way in and give my 2 cents, as I have an adult site or 2 that I market.

You can do article marketing for an adult'ish site but you have to be very creative. Do articles on dating and couples, or alternative lifestyle options, like being a Swinger! You can do topics on Improving your relationship with your partner, How to get back that spark in your marriage etc... Point is you have to think outside the box.

Videos can be a powerful tool. Posting non-nude videos on Youtube, Dailymotion etc... can help to drive a ton of traffic to your site. You can even do a video review of a particular product, just keep it PG-13
Then of course there are the actual adult tube sites. You can get videos from any of the Adult Affiliate programs out there in their resources or free content section. Watermarking them with your URL can get you some added traffic but does not do much in the way of SEO for your site.

Organic traffic is great of you can get it. Ranking high for Adult Keywords and Phrases can be very challenging unless you go for an underdeveloped niche of some sort. I made a lot of money by targeting "Men in Uniforms" a few years back. The niche is pretty saturated now but back then it was a real money machine.

Getting lots of related backlinks will help with your sites PR and Keyword ranking but finding adult related backlinks is a lot more difficult than for a Vanilla site. I have found a few services that do Adult directory submissions, as well as finding sites that allow you to put your link on their site in exchange for one of theirs on yours.

Although plenty of folks out here are going to bash me for saying this, but I have also used regular backlink resources for dropping in my adult link. Using the Angela and Paul type sights to get backlinks works for more than you would think. Some get dropped or unapproved but plenty make it through and provide some high PR backlinks to your site.

Another thing to do is sign up for as many of the adult webmaster forums as you can. There are a ton of them out there, With Ynot and Netpond and XNations are a couple of the bigger, more respected boards. Cozycampus is another great resource for Adult Webmasters and marketers.

There are a number of places where you can buy adult traffic. This traffic is coming from expired domains, click-thrus and pop ups. I would not advise using any of these services. The traffic is not focused and 99.9% of the clickers are looking for free stuff so it is really low quality traffic.

I know this does not cover all the marketing options out there and leaves out a few I have not worked with like TGP's and Galleries. Marketing in the Adult niche forces you to be constantly asking your self, "What else can I be doing to promote my site or drive traffic". You need to think outside the box and get creative.

Best to All,
Robert

Although it is a shameless plug for my own site, I have an erotic story site that allows clickable links in the story post and in the author resource box. It is PR2 site and could provide some nice link juice. PM if you are interested and want the URL.

Cheers!
Robert

If you haven't already in the past, don't even bother. The adult internet is in absolute shambles right now. Many companies that were big just 3 years ago are now going out of business and adult affiliate webmasters are coming over onto the clean side of things. It's a mess in that segment due to the economy, piracy and all of the free video sites that have sprung up.


Let me put it to you this way. I saw a guy complaining the other day about having 500,000 uniques a day and doing only 3 sales a day (which is $75-$90 total assuming $25 or $30 PPS). Yes, there is massive traffic in adult, but it doesn't buy at the same rate as "clean" traffic.

I think you are going to find this to be a tough nut to crack...

We are very careful with the adult content we distribute, because our publishers can be very touchy about what content they want us to offer to them...

We are not willing to sacrifice any percentage of our distribution list to satisfy ONE AUTHOR's articles...

If you are going to be discussing penis health, you had better be doing it from a professional health care perspective, or we won't do your articles...

If you are going to be doing sexual aids, it had better be done in really good taste...

In both cases, we will seek feedback from members of our publisher community before we accept the job order...

I am not going to sacrifice my mailing lists to serve your needs, if in the end it diminishes my reach...